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Polish Miod. In front of the Castle of Kings in Cracow the Germans have demolished the statue of Tadeusz Kosciuszko, who fought beside George Washington. In Warsaw the ghetto boundaries are squeezed tighter each month as more dead are carried out. Food supplies are now one-quarter of what they were before 1939. The Fukier wine cellar no longer has its miod (old fermented honey). The Germans have left only black crusts of bread for Poles and there is no longer bigos, brewed of wild game and cabbage...
Across the street from the White House in the green peace of Lafayette Square, U. S. Government workers continued to eat luncheon quietly amid the strutting pigeons at the foot of the baroque bronze statue of General Tadeusz Kosciuszko, the Polish patriot who was George Washington's adjutant in the Revolution and who fought most of his life for the independence and territorial integrity of Poland...
...Polish War Minister Tadeusz Kasprzycki arrived in Paris, first high Polish military man to visit France in three years. Ostensibly bent on "private business," he was nevertheless met at the railway station by French Chief of National Defense General Maurice Gamelin...
...navy blue cover there appeared not a portrait of Premier Dictator Joseph Pilsudski, or of President Ignatz Moscicki, or of Ignatz Paderewski, or Joseph Conrad, or Tadeusz Andzrezej Bonawentura Kosciuszko but an action picture of Gilda Gray.* "Polish dancer." Poles, incensed, took umbrage at such terpsichorean levity in their favorite periodical...
Died. Mikhail Petrovich Artsibashev, 48, famed Russian author, great-grandson of 'Tadeusz Kosciuszko (temperamental Pole who fought for the American colonists in 1777); in Warsaw. Tales of the Revolution, (1917) gives intimate pictures of Russia's debacle...